Memorandum sales-slip package



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- 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. I W. M. KINNARD. MEMORANDUM SALES SLIP PACKAGE.

IND. 531,317. Patented Dec. 25, 1.894.

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W.'M. KINNARD. MEMORANDUM SAM-1% SLIP PACKAGE.

Patented Dec. 25, 1894.

' UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILL M. KINNARD, OF DA TON,'oHIQ ASsiGnOR O THE CARTER-ORUME COMPANY, orNIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

M EMORAN DUIVl 'SALEJS-SLIV'P PACKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,317, dated December25, 1894. Application filed J'anuary'3,1893- -Serial No. 457,073. Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILL M. KINNARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dayton,county of Montgomery, and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Imto this specification.

Machines anddevices for holding two or more strips ,of paper andprovided with a writing tablet over which the paper strips are fed withcarbon material between the strips on the writing tablet, so that aduplicate is made of the original Writing, have been long employed instores for the use of salesmen in recording sales, in order that aduplicate of the sales slip may be made. at the same time with theoriginal.

One disadvantage in the use of such machines and devices has been thedifficulty of properly loading the device with the paper slips. .Thesalesmen who are expected to use these devices have ordinarily not beenaccustomed to theuse of mechanical devices,

and consequently are very apt to experience difficulty in loading orsupplying with pa per thesecases. It is to overcome these dis- 0advantages in the employment of such devices, and to furnish thememorandum slips of paper so folded and packed, that the mostinexperiencedsalesman can not fail to prop-- erly supply the holder withpaper without a 3 5 moments delay, that myinvention is in part directed.

Myinventionhas particular relation to those devices in which thememorandum sales slips are folded in bellows-folds." When the paper 0 issosup'plied, the two strips one for the original and the other for theduplicate writing, have usually been interfolded, and when thusfurnished, the salesman is apt if the arrangement is such that the paperstrips should be fed from the top, to load the supply compartment sothat the sli-ps feed from the bota 1 tom, and the salesman will notdiscover his mistake until he comes to use the device,

when considerable time will be lost in reme- 5o 'dying the mistake. Inaddition to this lia- 'bility of mistake, it is considerably moreexling. In order therefore to cheapen the manufacture and to rendermistakes on the part of salesmen in loading the device impossible, Ifold my two strips of paper for the original and duplicate writingseparately, and arrange them in a suitable binder with the delivery endsof the strips feeding from the center and extending slightly without thepackage, so that it will be impossible for the merest novice toimproperly load the device. The paper strips are intended to befurnished by the manufacturer ready for use, properly folded andcontained in a binder, so that the user has absolutely nothing to do butplace the package in a holder and all the difficulties heretoforeexperienced and the time wasted in loading the devices,are overcome andsaved. In our larger commercial houses where many hundreds of thesesales slip packages are used every day, each packagepreferablycontaining fifty or a hundred original and duplicate slips,the matter of time and ease -Wll1l1 which the packages of slips may beloaded into the machine, is a feature of considerable importance, aswill be readily understood.

Heretofore paper strips for use in devices of the kind underconsideration, have either been mounted in rolls or thetwo strips havebeen folded together in bellows folds. When the paper is furnished inrolls'and the slips are severed from the roll, they are apt to curl upand tend to take the position they occupied in the roll. Especially isthis true in smaller and pocket carrying devices, in which the roll hasnecessarily to be quite small. When the paper is furnished in zigzag orbellows folds, the expense is greater by reason of the fact thatheretofore as above set forth, these sheets have always beeninterfolded. Broadly considered I believe 'I side wings 0 and 19 beingpasted or otherwise am the first to arrange said package of strips, eachstrip folded separately and adapted to be placed in a holder or case forsame with each duplicate slip arranged to receive the memoranda from itscorresponding sales slip.

In addition to this my invention also relates to the form of binder Ihave shown, which, together with the separately folded strips, makes upmy improved form of package.

In the drawingsz-Figure 1 isa perspective view of my improved package ofsales slips. Fig. 2, isa perspective view of the binder for holding theslips. Fig. 3, is a view of the blank from which the binder is formed.Fig. 4, is a perspective view of the binder showing the method offolding same. Fig. 5, is a perspective view of the end piece throughwhich 'the paper strips are fed.

The binder for holding the strips of paper is preferably formed out of asingle blank cut and folded in the proper manner.

a, is the top; I), the bottom: 0, one of the sides, and d the otherside; while e is the central partitionwhich separates the paper strips.The blank is out out of a sheet of card board in the shape shown in Fig.3, and then scored so that it will readily fold at the lines f, g, h,z', j, and 7c, the distance between the creases g, h, and 1 ,3, beingjust half of the distance of the creases f and from the edges of thesides. The blank is then folded as shown in Fig. 4. The narrow portionof the blank Z is folded at right angles to the central partition e, andthe narrow portion m also at right angles to the central partition 6, inthe opposite direction. The top a and bottom b are then folded at rightangles to the side portions 1 and m and the sides 0 and d, glued orotherwise secured to the side portions l and m, when the case willappear as shown in Fig. 2, the partition e dividing the packagecentrally into two compartments. A strip of card board 01. provided withthe side wings 0 and p, and having a slit rout therein, is then securedat the open end 8 of the binder, the

secured to the top a and bottom b of the binder, and the binder is thenready for the sales strips.

1. and u are the two strips of paper, one for the original and the otherfor the duplicate writing. These strips are folded in bellowsfolds asshown in Fig. l and then placed within the binder, so that the outer ordelivery ends of the strips are at the center lying against and on eachside of the partition e. The outer ends are then passed through the slit0" and the package is ready for use. Of course very. many ways forinclosing the end 8 of the binder may be devised, as for example thestrip of card board a may be cut as a part of the single blank andafterward turned up and properly secured in place; or the slit r may beformed by two strips, one attached to the top a and the other to thebottom I), or

very many other ways of inclosing the end may be employed. It isnecessary to inclose this end of the package however, in order that thepaper strips may have something to pull against, although it is notessential that the entire end should be closed. Means however must beprovided to serve as a butt for the paper strips, as without such butt,the entire strip is apt to pull out from the binder. The strips t and uare preferably folded so as to form a hundred or fifty sales slips theoriginal strip 2!, being numbered consecutively, each fold forming asales slip, and the duplicate strip u being similarly folded andnumbered. The package of memorandum sales slips being furnished in thisway, the user has nothing to do, except to place the package in thedevice or holder, and to draw out a sufficient length of the two stripsto come down over the writing tablet and allow the sheet of carbon paperto be placed between them.

Inasmuch as the paper is fed from the center, it makes no diflerencewhich side of the package is uppermost and the user cannot load themachine improperly.

It will be noticed that the partition e does not extend the full lengthof the binder, but that a space is left at the delivery end of thepackage for the two strips of paper tocoine together. This portion ofthe partition is cut away in order to allow a free delivery of thestrips, as I have found, if the partition is extended to the end 2, thestrips will bind and will not deliver as freely as with the partitioncut away.

When it is intended to use the binder to be inserted with its paperstrips in the proper machine or case, the partition e is extended beyondthe inclosed part of the receptacle, or rather the top and bottom of thebinder are cut away to allow play for the folded ends w, w, of the twostrips as the paper is being fed from the package. As the paper is drawnout, it will form loops y, y, as shown in Fig. 1 and for that reason Iprefer to cut away the lower portion of the receptacle so as to allowthe folded ends to, 'w, to bend outward.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A sales slip package consisting of a strip of paper folded in bellowsfolds to form aseries of sales checks, and a paper strip similarlyfolded to form a series of duplicate slips, each of said strips beingfolded separately and arranged with their outer or delivery ends inside,with partition to separate the two strips, and binder for holding sametogether, substantially as shown and described.

2. A package for use in sales slip cases consisting of a sales strip ofpaper folded in bellows-folds, and a duplicate strip similarly folded,each strip folded separately, with a binder for said strips forming areceptacle therefor and provided with an end to serve as a butt, havinga central longitudinal slit through which said strips are fed,substantially as shown and described.

3. Apackage for use in sales slip cases, consisting of a sales strip ofpaper folded in bellows-folds and a duplicate strip similarly folded,each strip folded separately, with a binder for said strips providedwith a central partition to separate the same said partition being cutaway at its inner end to allow the strips to be fed from the package,substantially as shown and described.

4. A package for use in sales slip cases consisting of a sales stripofpaper folded in bellows-folds and a duplicate strip similarly folded,each strip folded separately, with a binder for said strips providedwith a central partition to separate the strips and an end having acentral longitudinal slit therein through which. said strips are fed,substantially as shown and described.

5. A package for use in sales slip cases, consisting of a sales strip ofpaper and a duplicate strip each folded separately in bellows,

folds and a binder for the same provided with a central partition cutaway at its inner end to separate the strips and an end having .acentral longitudinal slit therein, through which the strips are fed,substantially as shown and described.

6. A package for use in sales slip cases consisting of a sales strip ofpaper and a duplicate strip, each folded separately in bellowsfolds andabinder for the same provided with a central partition cut away at itsinner'end and extending outside of the receptacle and an .end having acentral longitudinal slit therein, through which the strips are fed,substantially as shown and described.

= WILL M. KINNARD.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. BOSLER,

EDWARD L. RUNG.

